India Pale Ale - Luminosa
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
IPA Series|
Score
7.47
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is lemon Starburst, kiwifruit, grapefruit. Taste is much the same with a spot of lime making its presence known. Rich bittersweet finish.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours clear yellow - gold with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, vibrant, juicy, hays lemonade, sherbet, lychee, mango, papaya, fruit pie, baked goods, doughy white bread and sponge cake. The taste is firmly dry, pleasing bitterness, green, piney, weedy, touch of spring onions, pithy, zesty, lemonade, grapefruit rind, peppery spice, mango and papaya with a lingering, bitter - green finish. Medium body and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Lovely combo. Flavourful and moreish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draft, half pint. @"Hoppy", Zaragoza (Spain). 25/07/2025
[#8.557 Global - #1.108 England - #10 The Kernel Brewery]
Pours light golden with a white head. Aroma: lemonzest, wet grass and floral hops. Taste: lemongrass, floral hops and candied fruits. Lemony palate.
Next one, please!
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Great stuff. Zingy pine, lime peel, juicy white grape, sun-kissed pale malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at the kernel tap room bermondsey. A translucent golden yellow coloured pour with a lasting loose white head. Aroma is lemon grass, wet grass, cut grass, mellow tropical. Flavour is composed of semi crisp, rustic grains, wheat, rustic earthy grains, cut grass.. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, moderate carbonation. Better than the pale.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
29th June 2025
Just a light haze on this gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Airy smooth palate, a very mild dryness, decent fine carbonation. Fluffy pale malts, a forward creamy sweetness. Luminosa hops here bring a touch of skunk and mild bitterness. Good lemonade that is both candyish and contrastingly bitter. Touches of raspberry and candy fruits near the fairly bitter and semi dry finish. Tidy. Much better representation of this hop than the pale ale.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Kernel Spa Road hazy gold colour lasting white head. Good citrus aroma. It's like the pale ale but more intense. Hides abv well. It's excellent. Love the fruit. It makes me smile and relax and just go all gooey inside. Love it. Moderate bitterness on the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at Mother Arch iii, 25/06/2025.
Moderately hazed orange to light golden topped with an off white head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is citric tinged straw, orange peel, melon, soft malts.
Taste comprises papaya, melon, tangerine, straw.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close splashed with mellow hop bitterness.
As with the pale version of the same hop ... rather subdued for the Kernel and a little stuck in 3rd gear.
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Bitter, slightly dry, a little grassy